As legend has it, the cross on which Jesus was crucified was made from a dogwood tree. God decreed that the dogwood tree would from that day forth never grow large enough to be used to make a cross. Thus, the dogwood tree is a small, under story tree.
According to the story, it was the dogwood tree that provided the wood used to build the cross on which Jesus was crucified. Because of its role in the crucifixion, it is said that God both cursed and blessed the tree.
According to the sacred tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church the True Cross was made from three different types of wood: cedar, pine and cypress.
“No, the dogwood doesn't grow naturally in or near Israel. It is native to Europe, eastern Asia, and North America only.” The site also says the there is not even a mention of the dogwood tree in the Bible at all.
Like most legends there is some debate about whether or not the legend of the dogwood is actually true. According to the website Inger.wordpress.com, the dogwood is not native to Israel. Therefore, it would not be growing during the time of the crucifixion. There is also no mention of the dogwood in the Bible.
Jacksonia scoparia, commonly known as dogwood (from its strong odour when burning), is a native species of a pea-flowered, greyish, leafless, broom-like shrub or small tree that occurs in the south east of Queensland, Australia and eastern New South Wales.
In areas where boring insects are a problem, never prune a dogwood tree in spring. The wounds created by pruning cuts provide an entry point for these devastating insects. In addition, if pruned while the tree is actively growing in spring and summer, the wounds bleed copious amounts of messy sap.
The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, along with the Tree of Life, clearly reveal our need for salvation! The “Forgotten Tree of Christmas” and the Olive Tree of Salvation wonderfully relate God's mercy and grace, and His unwillingness that anyone suffer throughout eternity!
Various plants have been proposed as the source of the crown of thorns the New Testament says was placed on Christ's head in the lead-up to the crucifixion, and no-one knows for certain. But the consensus among Christian scholars tends toward Ziziphus Spina-Christi.
With regard to the origin and character of the thorns, both tradition and existing remains suggest that they must have come from the bush botanically known as Ziziphus spina-christi, more popularly, the jujube tree.
He may have stood about 5-ft. -5-in. (166 cm) tall, the average man's height at the time.
The story continues that when Christ was crucified, His cross was made of the sturdy bark of the dogwood tree, and (as the legend goes) God both cursed and blessed the dogwood tree the day His Son died.
Frequently, however, there was a cross-piece attached either at the top to give the shape of a T (crux commissa) or just below the top, as in the form most familiar in Christian symbolism (crux immissa). The most ancient image of a Roman crucifixion depicts an individual on a T-shaped cross.
Now a new film suggests that the nails used to crucify Jesus have been found in a Jerusalem tomb. Canadian-Israeli director Simcha Jacobovici's The Nails of the Cross is the veteran investigator's second film claiming to have discovered artefacts linked to Christ. He also directed 2007's The Lost Tomb of Jesus.
While there are variations in the details, the accounts consistently describe how Christ was buried in a rock-cut tomb belonging to Joseph of Arimathea, a wealthy Jewish follower of Jesus.
When nails were involved, they were long and square (about 15cm long and 1cm thick) and were driven into the victim's wrists or forearms to fix him to the crossbar.
In the year 629 A.D., the Cross was recovered and brought back to Jerusalem by Emperor Heraclius of Constantinople. The relic of the True Cross was then restored to its place in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
The Jesus Tree of Malta is located right off the main road from Zebbug to the walled city of Mdina, the former home of the Knights Hospitalier.
The prophecies came to pass as recorded in the New Testament, and the genealogy of Jesus can be found in Matthew 1:2-16 and Luke 3:23-38.
The Jesus Tree. Jesus said that God's heavenly presence was arriving on Earth through him and his mission. And he often likened this to a huge tree, growing and spreading in surprising ways (Matthew 13:31-32). Jesus even claimed to be a tree of life, a vine that offers God's life to the world (John 15).
Nothing in the Bible either mandates or forbids the use of Christmas evergreen trees. Some people have erroneously assumed that Jeremiah 10:1–16 forbids chopping down and adorning trees in the same way we do at Christmas.
Biblical story
The story of the Book of Genesis places the first man and woman, Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden where they may eat the fruit of many trees, but are forbidden by God to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Propagating dogwood cuttings is easy and inexpensive. You can easily make enough trees for your own landscape, and a few more to share with friends. For the home gardener, the easiest and fastest method of dogwood tree propagation is taking softwood cuttings.
The native flowering dogwood is sometimes confused with the introduced Kousa dogwood, which is common in landscaping and has also established in the wild in the region around NYC. The two species have similar leaves, but are easily told apart at any time of year by fruit, bark, or flowers.
The average lifespan is 80 years. Flowering dogwood is rated hardy in USDA Zones 5 to 9. The growth rate is slow upon transplanting, gradually assuming a medium rate. Plant flowering dogwood grown from seed collected from trees indigenous to your local area.